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Amazed by what had just happened I felt as though I were dreaming. Is this real? Is Fitz really awake? Did he really just speak?
"Liv?" He said looking at me with a small smile on his face, and with a slightly groggy tone from waking up after so long.
As I heard him call my name, I awoke from my daze and realized that this was real. The man that I love is alive and is calling my name.
"Hi. Are you ok? I should go get the doctor. They probably want to check on you." As I say this still stunned by what is happening, I slowly get up out of the chair, but Fitz holds on tight to my hand.
"No. Not just yet. Just stay with me for a little longer." He says in a somewhat weak tone of voice, and worry that if I leave I may never come back.
I nod my head and sit back down in the chair and continue to hold my hand in his. As I sit there I look at him, and in my head I thank whatever brought Fitz back to me. And grateful that I have been given this chance to be with him.
"How long have I been unconscious for?" He said trying to recall the last memory he had before waking up in the hospital with his Olivia.
"You've been unconscious for about a week. I was beginning to worry that you would never wake up." Tears started to form in my eyes as I told him this. At this moment I wasn't "the fixer", or the White House Communications Director. I was simple a woman who was sitting at the bedside of a man I loved. A man who had my heart since the first day that we met.
"Hey, no tears. Everything is going to be fine. I'm alive, and I'm here with you. Besides I couldn't die without telling you that I love you. And apologize for what happened at the restaurant." He started to recall what he had said that night. What he was doing, and the look on Olivia's face when he left her there. As he remembered these things he started to hate himself, and had become disgusted with the man he was becoming. The kind of man that Olivia never wanted him to be.
"I never wanted to hurt you Liv. All I ever wanted was for you to be happy, and live the kind of life that you deserve. With a man that loves you and deserves you." He started to cry as he said these words feeling once more the regret, shame, and despair that he has felt for so long.
"I know Fitz. I know. But you have to know that no matter how hard I tried to push you away or tried to forget you I couldn't. It's like I said a year ago, that night at our spot in the rose garden. My whole life is you. I can't breathe because I'm waiting for you. You control me. I belong to you. And I've always known that my heart has always belonged to you." As I say this I try my hardest to fight back the tears to honor Fitz's wish. Now all I want to do is tell him everything that I feel before it's too late. Before we may be once more torn apart by his presidency and the husband and father that many know him to be.
Fitz smiles at me with the same smile that he has on every time that we were alone together. The same smile that I always longed to see every moment of everyday during the campaign, during the times in the White house, and when we were alone. He lets go of my hand and places it on my cheek wiping away the small tears that fall down my cheek.
"I love you Olivia Pope. You're the love of my life. No one has ever loved anyone as much as I love you." He says with joy in his voice as though he were the happiest man alive.
I smile at him with the same smile that I only show for him. I bring my lips to his, and we kiss. A kiss that I have so missed ever since our secret meeting in the woods during his hunting trip. That very moment in time, made me wish that time would stop. For at that moment, all I wanted was to stay frozen in time with the man I love, and the man who loves me.
